Is this legal? Is there anyone who has followed instructions completely after getting money grams?

its legal to get all your funds withdrawn and the bank overdraws an additional amount and your stuck with paying the bank back. as for the fee the checks are a come on....don't do it.

Oh please! IF ITS SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE THEN IT IS! TRY WATCHING THE MAGAZINE SHOWS LIKE DATELINE ON NBC, ETC. YOU MAY REALLY LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT SCAMS. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HONEST ABOUT THIS. IF YOU AND YOUR LOVE ONES ARE WILLING TO LOSE HARD EARNED MONEY, THEN GO AHEAD.

These people are very good with their scams. Not only do they send out these e-mails, they scan Craigslist looking for home and apartment rental ads. Someone I know had an apt. for rent on Craigslist and got several e-mails stemming from London from a so called engineer who was locating to NYC for work and there was this company paying all his expenses, so she got leases prepared, Fed-exed them to London and low and behold received a large check with a request (his company had issued his check in full to her) to send back to him via Western Union the so called $5,000. in excess that she had received. The only reason she did not lose more that $50 for depositing a fraudulent check from her bank was because she didn't have $5000. to send right away and was waiting for the check to clear in order to send this crook the money.

She lost precious time getting her apt. rented and she had a lot of explaining to do to her bank about the check. Ironically the check she received was a US check that when I helped her research it on the Internet, there was indeed a full report from the US bank warning people about a series of their checks that had been compromised for this scam.

it's a scam.

To Avoid scams here is what i tell people...

All spam emails/unsolicited phone calls/letters and faxes are scams.

As a general rule - ANYTHING involving Western Union/money gram = Scam.

my Advice: Don't deal with anyone out of state or from a foreign country or Accept or cash checks from strangers and never use wire/bank transfer services.. you risk losing your $$ and your mind.

Remember, if it sounds too good

to be true, it probably is! NEVER(ever) give out your personal information to strangers online or offline! Always be on guard.

S-CHEMING

C-RAFTY

A-GGRESSIVE

M-ALICIOUS

It's a very typical scam. One of many. You will never receive anything but lose it all. Take a look at this website: http://www.data-wales.co.uk/nigerian.htm. It tells you all about different form of scams, known scammers (their used email addresses, banks, tips to recognize them and much more). I found it very use full when I wanted to check out someone. But FIRST: stop all contacts with this man! You either will be completely broke and/or arrested for money laundering!

No, it's a total scam. A very common one, too.